Improvement in grain-drills



wweeeesw JOSEPH e. VALE, 0E GUMEEELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 72,127, dated December 10, 18,67.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-DRILLS.

TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY- CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOEPH G.VALE, of the county of Cumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Drills; and Ido hereby declare that the. following is a full, clear, und ziccurate description of the cnnstructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a. part ofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a bisectional lateral view, and

Figure 2 a perspective end view. y V To enable others skilled in the ert to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation. p p

I take the funnel A, within which Works the ordinary leather or rubber stocking A'. To the lower end'of the funnel A Ijoin the quarti-elliptical shovel, consisting of two parts, B and E E', coming to apointot E. At the junction of the funnel A. with the shovel part B, from a point inthe centre oi' the rear to u. point in the centrevof the front, I extend the permanent rod C. At a righta-ngle to C, and immediately under the mouth of thestocking A, in the shovel part B, I extend the permanent end H, on which I fasten at equal distances from the sides two exactly spherical balls of iron.l D D. The parts A and B are ofcast iron; E is steel.

The grain falling through the stocking A is divided by the rod C into two equal divergent scattering portions, which then striking the iron halls D and D', are completely spread over the space ot" ground ouened by the expanded baseof the shovel.

In thed'rills now in use the grain falls in one narrow furrow, unscattered, which I believe is a. vast (1i/fdvtage to its proper growth and nourishment.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The quarti-elliptical shovel B, with its baise EE coming to a point at E, th'e rod C, the rod H, with thereon .i

the balls D and D', together with the funnel A, all constructed and operating in the manner and for the purpose described. Y, p

JOSEPHG. VALE.

Witnesses:

M. Summen,- SAMEL ALBMGHT. 

